One Lucky Monkey

Speed Against Speed

The championship round grinds forward, with Jackie Chun vanishing behind Goku and planting a heavy kick that hurls the boy into the stadium gate. A chunk of the structure caves in under the impact, yet Goku pops back up without so much as a bruise, which visibly frustrates his opponent. A beat later, Goku turns the trick around and blinks behind Jackie, copying the same rapid footwork, then takes the sequence one step further by appearing above him and hammering the old master face first into the ring surface.

A Slip of the Tongue

Disoriented, Jackie blurts out a complaint that Goku is disrespecting his own teacher. He catches himself instantly and covers the slip with a quick scoff before the crowd can process what he almost admitted. Determined to regain control of the match, he throws himself back into the attack.

Two Wild Styles Collide

Jackie shifts into a loose swaying gait, weaving unpredictably around his target. Yamcha immediately calls it out from the sidelines as the Drunken Fist, a style built on feints and off rhythm strikes, and he shouts a warning to Goku. The warning lands too late. Jackie wades in and batters the boy with a string of hits that looks like it will knock him out cold.

The Crazy Monkey Answers

On the edge of collapse, Goku drops into a hunched, simian crouch and begins scratching and lurching like an animal. He launches himself at Jackie with vicious unpredictable swings and smashes his opponent into the same gate that broke his own fall earlier. Asked what on earth that technique was called, Goku cheerfully answers that it is the Crazy Monkey, a style no one in the audience has ever seen before.